On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:41:01 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > Morality has changed and continues to change. At one point in history > it was moral -- even blessed by God -- to kill infants by bashing their > heads on boulders.
<snip> > Morality is societally based: <snip> You are attempting to define morality as behavior that is considered by popular opinion to be blessed by God or approved of within a society. That kind of definition won't do for most people who will put themselves to really think about it. If morality were just about going along with the crowd or going with the flow, or by doing what the Romans do when in Rome, then morality would have no meaning. Unlike attitudes and opinions and historical eras and laws and evolving cultures and religions, morality is fixed and it does not change. You cannot change morality simply by changing your geographical location. You can go somewhere on a trip, but you can't put morality on a trip and make it go somewhere else. The moral position is a fixed position. It is a stable, immovable, and inflexible position. It cannot be changed by human forces nor by any known natural forces. You can compromise with the moral position, but it is immoral to do so. Haven't you noticed that is the way it is? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
